Residents of a south London tower block, similar to one where six people died in a fire last month, say Southwark council misled them about safety issues in their building.
Hundreds of police officers, many on horses or with dogs, protected the Red, White and Blue event.
Yasmin Rassool, student at the University of Brighton‘I think what we’ve done here today is amazing. We did what we set out to do – stopped the BNP from getting to the festival and put our message across.
A hurricane of solidarity with the Vestas workers hit towns across Britain on their first national day of action on Wednesday of last week.
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) has been at the centre of building resistance to the Nazi BNP. It called the national mobilisation and blockades that took place at Codnor.
People in 25 towns and cities across Britain organised solidarity on the first Vestas national day of action on Wednesday of last week.
Growing numbers of families in Britain, the US and, most of all, Afghanistan are shedding tears for their loved ones killed in a hellish war.
Danni Hamilton’s son is in the British army. He has now been given battle orders to go to Afghanistan. She spoke to Socialist Worker about why the troops should be brought home:
Clare Glenton’s husband, Joe, is a British soldier who has refused to return to fight in Afghanistan and is being charged with desertion. Clare spoke to Socialist Worker:
People lined the streets of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire on Tuesday to show their respects for the British soldiers recently killed in Afghanistan.
The beleaguered president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai was facing a national election on Thursday of this week after Socialist Worker went to press.
There is a growing sense that the war in Afghanistan is heading for even greater disaster and cannot be won.
